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Introduction to Electronic Music Listening Lists INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRONIC MUSIC LISTENING LISTS LISTENING CHAPTER 1 p. 28 Electronic music before 1945 1. Risveglio dii una citta (1913) Luigi Russolo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSuqDExaopg Mechanical noise-intoners 2. Corale (1921) Luigi Russolo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WtCCunp6Bw Mechanical noise-intoners and orchestra 3. Valse sentimentale (Tchaikovsky) Clara Rockmore (1977) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEl4zCQBv2c Theremin 4. Ecuatorial (1933) Edgard Varese http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxkU9vd1AEg Chorus, small orchestra, organ, and two Ondes Martenots 3:25 5. Langsames Stuck und Rondo fur Trautonium (1935) Paul Hindemith http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxUNdboFhGA Trautonium played by Oskar Sala 6. Oraison (1937) Olivier Messaien http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRJmJzWibzA Ondes Martenot and orchestra 7. Imaginary Landscape No. 1 (1939) John Cage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLDxqnksY80 Radios and turntables playing test signals 8. Spellbound (1944) by Miklos Rozsa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3AK2qr9SkM (1:25) Musical score for the Alfred Hitchcock film, featuring Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman on Theremin 9. Fantasia for Theremin, Oboe, String Quartet and Piano (1944) Bohuslav Martinu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2XGkZXu4YA (Can see playing) 10. Turangalila-Symphonie (1946-48) by Olivier Messaien Ondes Martenot and orchestra http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PjyCpRKDrk (22:53) LISTENING CHAPTER 2 p. 47 Trickaufnahmen (same as CD) Paul Hindemith http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whLDHei8pC0 Turntablism p.60 early electronic music in europe 1. Etudes de bruits (1948) Pierre Schaeffer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9pOq8u6-bA (Chemins de fer) Railway http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t--K9kpEwY0 (Pathetique) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jarTLD7aEw (Violette) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgiNq0bdkKg (Aux allures) musique concrete w/turntables 2. Symphonie pour un homme seul (complete & w/film) Pierre Henry and Pierre Schaeffer Waltz (on CD) 3:31 discussed on p. 56, briefly p. 470 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8dCdQ3iTrc Musique concrete w/magnetic tape (Paris) 3. Klangstudie II (Tchaikovsky) Herbert Eimert http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTSed3Ybzhg Early elektronische Musik using magnet tape (Cologne) interesting form & sounds 4. Studie I (1953) Karlheinz Stockhausen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmiqds2mZV4 seems random, but timbres from additive Additive synthesis with sine waves (Cologne) 5. Glissandi (1955) Gyorgy Ligeti http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcHH8lRtgBg nothing notable Produced in Cologne 6. Scambi (1957) (on CD) Henri Pousseur on p. 67 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_D8CF7VAY4 (Starts at 6:30) interesting timbres and gestures, disjunct . Strange piece because assembled before listening. Nice at 12:00 Produced in Milan 7. Diamorphoses (1957) Iannis Xenakis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGZyn4UiB6c Produced in Paris 8. Thema—Omaggio a Joyce (1958) (on CD) Luciano Berio p. 80, discussed briefly p. 469 In Chadabe, pp. 49-50. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uIvzVgk16c Early text-composition piece (Milan) 9. Whirling (1958) Tom Dissevelt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMIazI2fiqA interesting—sounds more modern Early electronic pop music (Utrecht) 10. Kontakte (1959-60) Karlheinz Stockhausen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0h0ApJAeSg Cologne 11. Variations for a Door and a Sigh Pierre Henry Quite a good piece! **** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dud4D6PeHqQ musique concrete p. 72 Studie II (on CD) (1958) Karl Stockhausen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDyjuVwWv0M p. 81 Duodeno normale (on CD) (1970) Teresa Rampazzi p. 84 Four Aspects (on CD) (1960) Daphne Oram http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-42hkAfkkvs LISTENING CHAPTER 3 p. 110 Early electronic music in the US 1. Heavenly Menagerie (1950) Louis and Bebe Barron Early tape composition (NY) 2. Williams Mix (1952) (on CD) John Cage p. 105, discussed briefly p. 469 Discussed in Chadabe, pp. 55-57 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6pgklMAgIA Produced in Barrons’ studio (NY) 3. Fantasy in Space (1952) Otto Luening http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZc6KFJiKU0 Produced at the Columbia Tape Music Center (NY) 4. Sonic Contours (1952) Vladimir Ussachevsky, briefly discussed p. 471 Produced at the Columbia Tape Music Center (NY) 5. Intersection (1953) Morton Feldman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnaQDY2oV5o Produced in Barrons’ studio (NY) 6. A Poem in Cycles and Bells (1954) Luening and Ussachevsky http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUO-O12Omuc (Similar but different piece) One of the first works for tape and live orchestra (NY) 7. Forbidden Planet: Overture (movement on CD) (1956) Bebe and Louis Barron p. 101 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbFAXhPlZMw http://www.youtube.com/channel/HCHB8ccDpWw_E (Scenes) Soundtrack for the motion picture of the same name (NY) 8. Linear Contrasts (1958) (on CD) Vladimir Ussachevsky p. 115 Early tape work using the RCA Music Synthesizer (NY) 9. Stereo Electronic Music No. 1 (1960) Bulent Arel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpBPh6OU3zE An RCA synthesizer piece by Turkish composer Arel (NY) 10. Music from the Venezia Space Theater (1964) Gordon Mumma Representative of the electronic music produced by Gordon Mumma and Robert Ashley for Milton Cohen’s Space Theater (Ann Arbor) 11. Ensembles for Synthesizers (1962-64) Milton Babbitt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5n1pZn4izI RCA synthesizer with total serialism Discussed in Pellman, pp. 350–51 p. 123 Postlude from Music for a Sacred Service (1961) (on CD) Bulent Arel Tape composition with oscillators, shifter, filters LISTENING CHAPTER 4 1. Toraware no Onna (Imprisoned Woman) Kuniharu Akiyama The first work of tape music completed in Japan 2. Les Oeuvres pour musique concrete x, y, z (1953) Toshiro Mayuzumi The first piece of Japanese tape music broadcast over the radio in Japan 3. Another World (1953) Joji Yuasa Tape music and accompanying slide projection (performed live in 1955) 4. Studio I: Music for Sine Wave by Proportion of Prime Number (1955) Toshiro Mayuzumi Produced at the electronic music studio of NHK (Tokyo) 5. Musique Concrete for Stereophonics Broadcast (1955) Minao Shibata The first stereo tape piece completed at the NHK studio (Tokyo) 6. Relief Statique (1956) Toru Takemitsu Completed at Sony studios of Jikken Kobo 7. Shichi no Variation (7 Variations) (1956) Makato Moroi and Toshiro Mayuzumi Completed at the NHK studio 8. Otoko no shi (Death of a Man) Toru Takemitsu Completed at the NHK studio 9. Sky, Horse, Death (1958) Toru Takemitsu Completed at the Sony studios of Jikken Kobo 10. Ondine (1959) Akira Miyoshi Electronic music to accompany a stage production LISTENING CHAPTER 5 p. 161 Classic tape composition techniques 1. Intersection (1953) Morton Feldman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnaQDY2oV5o Feldman used leader tape to add patches of silence required by his piece 2. I Am Sitting in a Room (1969) Alvin Lucier, discussed briefly p. 470 Discussed briefly in Chadabe, pp. 73-74 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCgicEWD1Nc An experiment in the degeneration of magnetic tape sounds 3. Discreet Music (1975) Brian Eno http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-Vq4pmzMaE Used tape delay with multiple tape recorders 4. Invention in Twelve Tones (1952) Otto Luening http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLogu0wv-rg Used tape echo 5. Beautiful Soop (1967) Pauline Oliveros Used multiple tape echo signals 6. Le Microphone bien tempere (1950-52) Pierre Henry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QTUBMUSVjE Used reverberation 7. Music for the Gift (1963) Terry Riley http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a82w6B5mh-Y One of the first uses of tape delay with multiple tape recorders 8. I of IV (excerpt on CD) (1966) by Pauline Oliveros p. 167, briefly p. 470 Combined multiple tape delay system with the gradual degeneration of audio signal 9. Cinq etudes de bruits: Etude violette (1948) Pierre Schaeffer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jarTLD7aEw (Violette) Early application of backwards sounds using a turntable 10. Glissandi (1957) Gyorgy Ligeti http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcHH8lRtgBg Extensive use of tape speed variation and backwards sounds LISTENING CHAPTER 6 1. The Expression of Zaar (alt. Title Wire Recorder Piece, 1944) Halim El-Dabh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_kbNSdRvgo Middle East Radio, Cairo, composed using a magnetic wire recorder 2. Dripsody (1955) Hugh Le Caine, discussed briefly p. 469 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvHSvSBwFYM *** interesting *** Using Le Caine’s Special Purpose Tape Recorder with a water drop 3. Folge von 4 Studien (1959-62) Josef Anton Riedl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8xTRTZeKdE at 5:56 Siemens Studio fur Elektronische Musik 4. Electronic Study No. 1 (1960) Mario Davidovsky http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWMREHOsoKg Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center 5. Leiyla and the Poet (1961) Halim El-Dabh Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center 6. Antithese (1962) Mauricio Kagel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhtHavs1hF0 uck. Siemens Studio fur Elektronische Musik 7. Ensembles for Synthesizer (1961-63) Milton Babbitt, discussed briefly p. 468 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5n1pZn4izI (Serial) Using RCA Mark II Electronic Music Synthesizer 8. Space Mystery (1963) Raymond Scott Using Scott’s Electronium 9. I of IV (1966) Pauline Oliveros Produced at the University of Toronto Electronic Music Studio using Hugh Le Caine’s tape loop system. Briefly discussed in Chadabe, pp. 77-78 10. Time’s Encomium (1968-69) Charles Wuorinen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKq8DkBk_GA Using RCA Mark II Electronic Music Synthesizer LISTENING CHAPTER 7 p. 224 Analog synthesis and sound modification 1. Cartridge Music (1960) John Cage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aKT2kDJSng A work for amplified small sounds that used phono cartridges as contact microphones 2. The Wolfman (1964) Robert Ashley http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRtSX59vSGg Acoustic feedback was used as the primary source of audio material for this work 3.
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